Mahesan Niranjan
@mahesanniranjan.bsky.social
Professor at University of Southampton.
To pour 500 billion into Artificial Intellgence claiming it will improve healthcare, and at the same time not believing in vaccines and non-pharmaceutical interventions to control infection spread is not an intelligent thing to do.
January 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
To pour 500 billion into Artificial Intellgence claiming it will improve healthcare, and at the same time not believing in vaccines and non-pharmaceutical interventions to control infection spread is not an intelligent thing to do.
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January 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A fine piece from David Spiegelhalter... probably!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
www.nature.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:57 PM
A fine piece from David Spiegelhalter... probably!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A nice piece in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Totally predictable some years ago when the trajectory was set in the pursuit of power, rather than principled policy. The backstabbing and the manufactured lies... this is where it was to get.
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/k...
Totally predictable some years ago when the trajectory was set in the pursuit of power, rather than principled policy. The backstabbing and the manufactured lies... this is where it was to get.
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/k...
Keir Starmer’s Government Is Stuck in a 'Right Wing Doom Loop' That Will Only Help Nigel Farage
The Prime Minister's acceptance of right-wing economic orthodoxy is pushing his party and the country towards disaster, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher
bylinetimes.com
December 22, 2024 at 7:03 AM
A nice piece in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Totally predictable some years ago when the trajectory was set in the pursuit of power, rather than principled policy. The backstabbing and the manufactured lies... this is where it was to get.
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/k...
Totally predictable some years ago when the trajectory was set in the pursuit of power, rather than principled policy. The backstabbing and the manufactured lies... this is where it was to get.
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/k...
If university lecturers don't change their methods of assessment (and continue to grade and give credit to essays written at home) the only possible defence is laziness.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
If university lecturers don't change their methods of assessment (and continue to grade and give credit to essays written at home) the only possible defence is laziness.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Apparently some dubious statistical inference, and now the expert witness changes his mind.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Expert witness 'changed mind' over deaths, say Lucy Letby lawyers
The nurse was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murder of seven more.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Apparently some dubious statistical inference, and now the expert witness changes his mind.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reading to look forward to...
thecon.ai
thecon.ai
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
thecon.ai
December 15, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Reading to look forward to...
thecon.ai
thecon.ai
Now, that is a university so concerned about the exam performance of its undergraduates!
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of ‘evil’ women without evidence or trial
A 1561 charter granted powers to imprison young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after dark
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Now, that is a university so concerned about the exam performance of its undergraduates!
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
PhD positions for September 2025:
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niranjan PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
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December 2, 2024 at 9:43 PM
PhD positions for September 2025:
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On th ToDo list....
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
The Taste of Mango review – powerful memoir of family secrets in Sri Lanka
Film-maker Chloe Abrahams combines documentary and memory in candid conversations with the women in her family
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:16 PM
On th ToDo list....
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
Post doctoral reearch assistant job: Machine learning for arly diagnosis of dementia:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR775/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR775/r...
Research Fellow at University of Southampton
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November 30, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Post doctoral reearch assistant job: Machine learning for arly diagnosis of dementia:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR775/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR775/r...
Hello World!
November 30, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Hello World!